Teaching English Lesson Plans

  Okay, so we're going to use this pro-forma as our lesson plan and we're going to fill one out as though we were planning for an actual lesson. So, we start off with some basic information about the class. So, the name of the teacher, date and time and the class level. In this particular case, our class is going to be an elementary class and the room will be room 3. Having looked through the registers we see that the expected number of students for this particular class is going to be 10. This will help us in creating our worksheet copies. The context of the lesson for this class is going to be present continuous tense and it may well be the first time that this particular level of class has been introduced to this tense. So, our focus is going to be fairly general and it's going...  [Read more]

  Hello. This presentation is going to cover this section on lesson planning and what we're going to do is to have a look as to why we go about planning a lesson, what do we actually put in it? We'll create an empty lesson plan pro-forma and then having done that what we'll do is to fill in that lesson plan for a particular teaching point. So, our starting position is going to be: "Why do we plan lessons at all?" There are a number of reasons why we need to plan a lesson. The first and foremost perhaps is that it's going to create a logical sequence for our lessons. If we didn't have a lesson plan, it is quite possible that we could go all over the place and it would become confusing for the students. By having this plan, what we've created is a structure that we can work from. So,...  [Read more]

  So, now we're going to fill the actual procedure of the lesson plan out itself. We mentioned at the start, the first thing we do, is to get some general information about the class that we'll be teaching and then, in order for someone to be able to cover our lesson, we need to present enough information in our lesson plan that they can actually carry it out. What I'm going to do is for each stage of the lesson, I'll indicate what I'm going to do in the lesson and then, we'll cut away from that to have a look to see how that will actually be achieved. So, our lesson is going to be based on a 45-minute lesson and the first phase is going to be the engage phase and it's going to be a straight arrow ESA lesson. I'm going to take approximately five minutes on my engage phase and in...  [Read more]

  The first part of my study phase is going to be the board work and I'm going to use the information that I generated in the elicitation part of my engage phase to move on to the actual board work. What I'm going to do is to show the structure of this particular tense. So, the phase study I'm expecting to take about ten minutes on this particular part and, again, the interaction will mainly be the students talking to me. So, how am I going to achieve that with this information? Well, we could ask the students to have a look at the sentences themselves and to tell us what they can see. If we look at each of the first words in here, then at this level, I should hopefully be able to elicit from my students what each of these words have in common and they may well give an answer that...  [Read more]

  So, having elicited this particular structure, what I'm now able to do is to move on to the actual study activities. Typically, they will be in the form of worksheets to check that the students actually understand this information. So, I might prepare three activities. They may not do them all but, for example, I could prepare these three study activities. So, the first one is going to be a fairly straightforward matching activity, where perhaps they match the subject to its correct verb "to be" in that part of the sentence. The second one is going to be a gap fill. For example, I might use this verb here and ask them to complete a sentence using that verb, so that I can check that any spelling changes that take place are correct and the final one is going to be an unscramble,...  [Read more]

  So, the document itself needs to contain some general information about the class, for example the name of the teacher, the date and time of the lesson, what level of class is being taught and in what room, how many students are we expecting, this is important, when we've got things like photocopying and materials to do, what is the context of the lesson, in other words, what is the lesson actually about, what vocabulary or grammar point is this lesson covering and sometimes it's also useful to write out what the focus of the lesson is. So, in effect, the context of the lesson is telling us the grammar point, for example, that might be the present continuous tense, whereas the focus is telling us how we're going to go about teaching it. Another example to illustrate this: Let's...  [Read more]

  Then, we have a set of objectives and aims. Here, the learner objectives relate to what we're hoping the students are going to be able to do by the end of your lesson and quite often, that can be a useful way of writing out what the objectives are. So, we would start the sentence "By the end of the lesson, students should be able to?" and then a list of two, three or four items that we're expecting the students to be able to do by completing this lesson. The learner objectives are different to the teacher aims the teacher aims are what you are expecting from that lesson itself. Now, when you first start teaching, quite a normal aim might be to complete the lesson successfully, to get through the whole thing without having any problems. As time goes on and you become more...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Mackford Wisconsin and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Unit10 was a video lesson. This unit gave me the opportunity to observe a real life English language classroom which is quite different from my experience as a kindergarten teacher. It showed two videos where the same lesson was taught twice by the same teacher to the same students in a different manner, attitude and teaching style. In lesson1, The teacher`s class management was very poor, He was mean and self-centered thereby making the Students feel unmotivated and the lesson was ineffective....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Niagara New York and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: The unit focused on situations or issues that may occur when teaching. These situations included: first lessons for new and old groups, warmers for getting students engaged in English, multiple English levels in one class, large classes, preventing using native language in the class, and difficulties with listening texts. While each issue has a list of approaches that can be used to combat it in the classroom, I found that the common problem that arises is boredom of the students. Whether it be a...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Santa Rita Brazil and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This lesson was about how actual lessons happen in class. The same lesson was taught twice. The first lesson was really bad. The teacher taught the class as if he was teaching native English speakers, He generally didn`t show much interest in the students or their language development. The second lesson was lively and the teacher had a very positive attitude. He displayed a real interest in, not only the lesson, but the students as well. It was clear that the second lesson was the way a lesson...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Fee All TESOL and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: H.B. - Vietnam said: This is an interesting and useful course which gives me invaluable knowledge and teaching skills. It gives me the excellent idea of the ESA method of teaching and more important than that, helps me practice teaching with that method by making lesson plans. Moreover, the course deals with all areas connected to teaching including students, classroom management, lesson planning, course books, testing, technology, teaching grammar, speaking, listening, writing, reading, vocabulary, language...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Tiller Oregon and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This Unit presented two video lessons. These video lessons portrayed real ESA demonstrations while effectively showing a correct and an incorrect way of teaching a lesson. Within the incorrect lesson several common mistakes that teachers make are portrayed to display the difficulties that the students might face when faced with ineffective teaching methods and an unapproachable attitude. I personally benefited from comparing both lessons because there were times when I could relate myself in both the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Maebashi and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Vocabulary, grammar and functions I like the idea that grammar is the tree trunk/branches and vocabulary is the leaves Lessons will vary with depth of what is focused on Common to use straight arrow ESA when teaching grammar and vocabulary Common to use more complex ESA structures, boomerang or patchwork, when teaching functions-based lessons Teaching vocabulary, factors that affect difficulty to students Criteria to select vocabulary What students need to know about a vocabulary item Techniques...  [Read more]

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